Word: worthlessness
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...South Vietnam's survival with America's safety and the preservation of liberty, it was stuck. The American people believed their leaders' rhetoric. Reading the Pentagon Papers, we sense the frustration of men who had sold a war so well that they could no longer think of declaring it worthless...
...town is also the home of the Centerville Recreational Facility, a detention camp for classical musicians, who are described as a socially unproductive and financially worthless class of people (portrayed in the film by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra). Surrounded by a high wooden fence that is topped with barbed wire and vigilantly patrolled by Nazi soldiers carrying rifles, the orchestra is forced to perform pop music (i.e., Zappa's score), since that is more lucrative...
Erwin traced a 20-year evolution in the thinking of inmates that has culminated, he said, in a "critical perception toward society." The fact that prisoners no longer feel "worthless" has enabled them to join together and demand to be treated fairly, he said...
With the score 21-16 and only eight and a half minutes in the game, Joe Restic elected to go for two points after the touchdown as one would have been worthless. Foster was tackled less than a yard short of the goal line on a keeper...
...bargaining continued, tensions grew. Oswald and Schwartz were bitterly disappointed when the inmates discarded the court injunction as worthless. Apparently the rebels feared both physical beatings by guards if they surrendered?despite the promises?and criminal prosecution. They also felt that if they released the hostages, they would lose their bargaining power...